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S-a schimbat locul evenimentului: va fi la sediul Codecs, pe strada Agricultori, în zona Iancului- Pro TV.

De mult aşteptam agenda şi anunţul privind locul de desfăşurare şi iată că au apărut pe site-ul oficial. O echipă mică va reuni cîţiva vorbitori importanţi la un eveniment de două zile specializat pe Wordpress, cea mai tare platformă CMS din lume. Citeşte continuarea »

De cîteva săptămîni, îmi introduc distanţa parcursă cu bicicleta şi viteza medie în blog, iar un plugin creat de Andrew M. Whalen calculează automat diverse lucruri precum: distanţa totală, viteza medie totală, distanţa pe zi (grafic) etc. Poţi afişa pe blog orice doreşti, inserînd nişte variabile de PHP destul de simple.

Dacă ai Wordpress şi mergi cu bicla, Cyclopress te scuteşte de ţinerea unui jurnal de ture separat. În afară de Wordpress, îţi mai trebuie un ciclocomputer montat pe ghidon.

A, mai trebuie să ştii că paginile şi post-urile din Wordpress nu ştiu să interpreteze nativ cod PHP, aşa că ai nevoie de un alt plugin care ştie cînd introduci variabilele şi cum să le interpreteze.

Oliver Seidel a actualizat plugin-ul de formulare cformsII pentru Wordpress, acum a ajuns la versiunea 10.3. Sunt câteva chei noi, unele au fost schimbate şi unele eliminate, pentru că au fost schimbate unele opţiuni ale plugin-ului.

Am actualizat şi eu traducerea, o găsiţi în pagina Wordpress a acestui blog.

Oliver Seidel a actualizat plugin-ul de formulare cformsII pentru Wordpress, acum a ajuns la versiunea 10.2. Am actualizat şi eu traducerea, o găsiţi în pagina Wordpress a acestui blog.

His point is right, but the approach is inappropriate. King Rat found about the CformsII plugin for Wordpress while he was working on a friend’s website. He was not experienced enough to build his own plugin to handle contact forms, but he said to himself: “Hm, why not ruin this one?”

So, he posted this, accusing Oliver Seidel of lying when he claimed that the plugin was open-source. The problem is that Oliver never claimed that Cforms was open-source and he protected his byline all the time in the plugin pages. So, the only problem was that the plugin was promoted through Wordpress Repository, which is a zone reserved for GPL work.

Oliver got mad and he decided to withdraw CformsII from Wordpress.org, stop developping the plugin after version 10.2 and close the support forum.

I am wondering why the guys from Wordpress.org didn’t erased the plugin if they were thinking it violated GPL version 3 and if Mr. Rat is happy now. I would have suggested Rat to contact Oliver first, then write the condemnation letter.

As far as I’m concerned, I was never bothered by the obliggation to keep the credit line, because the plugin was offered for free. I liked the plugin so much that I decided to translate it into Romanian. I would like to see the plugin being developed further and I hope Oliver will reconsider his decision.

UPDATES

• In a recent e-mail I received from Oliver, he says he is dissapointed, not mad and that he made the decisions himself, not forced by Rat or Wordpress.org.
• Elizzza wonders if we can all do something about it. Maybe contact Oliver and ask him to keep a version with no byline on Wordpress.org and a full version on his site.
• Randy believes that removing a plugin from the Wordpress Repository will kill it for the general public. I don’t think so, because there are simple contact forms plugins for the general public. CformsII is very complex and very customizable and you can’t find anything similar on the free net. Plus, there is a comprehensive support section that beats everything I saw in terms of plugins for Wordpress.
• Leandro says he doesn’t like plugins where authors insert their byline. But Leandro can remove that byline if he wants to show users that he doesn’t care about the author’s work and credit. Or he can search for other plugins that don’t do that. Or create his own.

Oliver Seidel a actualizat plugin-ul de formulare cformsII pentru Wordpress, acum a ajuns la versiunea 10.1, complet compatibil cu Wordpress 7. Acum poţi crea formulare pe mai multe pagini. Am actualizat şi eu traducerea, o găsiţi în pagina Wordpress a acestui blog.

I’ve been waiting for this new version and been following the developments on the Wordpress blog. The new Coltrane versions comes with:

• A new interface for the dashboard (now, you can drag and drop)
• Comment threading (one plugin less)
• Paging (one plugin less)
• Replying to comments right from the dashboard
• Native sticky posts (so, one plugin less)
• Every screen is customizable
• Automatic upgrade of Wordpress with just one click

So, go ahead and download the new version. And if you use the CformsII plugin and speak Romanian, you may need the Romanian translation.

Photo (John Coltrane) credit: Musicartistinterview.com

UPDATE

- More about the new versions and some fears that everything will not work smoothly with the new Wordpress, at Lorelle.

- A working demo with the new version, if you don’t have the possibility to test the 2.7 on your server (user: admin, pass: demo).